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Example sentences for: picayune

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In half an hour of questions, reporters manage to glean nothing--not a single picayune detail--except the obvious fact that Clinton's lawyers have barred any public discussion.
Not long ago a newspaper column (in the New Orleans Times-Picayune ) about fishing rods contained the following sentence: "Nothing has been overhyped more in recent years than the value of ball bearings in reel construction."
News and Time gushed about "Clintonism," the Standard offers its own definition (pegged to the State of the Union): "Clintonism transforms your most parochial worries into matters of state," dealing with picayune issues rather than genuine ones.
The cover story uses the trial of former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy to slam the proliferation of picayune ethics laws.
After one of the most extensive antitrust investigations in history (completed by the Justice Department when the FTC failed to issue a complaint), the government found only a single, rather picayune practice--the so-called "per processor" license--worthy of challenge.